The UK's most downloaded urban tracks of all time revealed!
04/05/2014
By Daniel Lane



As part of the Official Charts' Decade Of Digital celebrations, MTV Base have unveiled the Official All-Time Urban Download Chart Top 20.

Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke has beaten the Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling to be crowned the UK’s most downloaded urban track of all time.

The news was revealed this evening on music TV channel MTV Base as part of a countdown of the Official All-Time Urban Download Chart Top 20. The genre chart has been compiled as part of the Decade Of Digital initiative to celebrate 10 years since legitimate digital downloading launched in the UK.

Despite being released less than a year ago Blurred Lines, which also features US rapper TI and man of the moment Pharrell Williams, has sold more than 1.54 million copies to date.

“I’m so honoured, the success of Blurred Lines is a dream come true,” Robin Thicke told OfficialCharts.com.

I Gotta Feeling debuts one place behind it at Number 2. Originally released in 2009, the Black Eyed Peas’ track became the first single to sell over a million copies in the UK on digital downloads alone.

Pharrell Williams’ Happy, which was released last summer, shoots up the all-time download rankings, entering at Number 3 on the Official All-Time Urban Download Chart. Bruno Mars’ 2010 single Just the Way You Are (Amazing) is at Number 4, while Eminem and Rihanna’s Love The Way You Lie (5) completes the Top 5. It is the highest charting track to feature Rihanna of four in the Top 20, which includes Only Girl (In The World) (6), Diamonds (7), and What’s My Name (18).

The Official All-Time Urban Download Chart Top 20 is as follows. You can see the UK's Top 100 most downloaded tracks of all-time, here.

The Official All-Time Urban Download Chart Top 20
1 BLURRED LINES ROBIN THICKE/TI/PHARRELL
2 I GOTTA FEELING BLACK EYED PEAS
3 HAPPY PHARRELL WILLIAMS
4 JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (AMAZING) BRUNO MARS
5 LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE EMINEM FT RIHANNA
6 ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD) RIHANNA
7 DIAMONDS RIHANNA
8 GIVE ME EVERYTHING PITBULL/NE-YO/AFROJACK/NAYER
9 LA LA LA NAUGHTY BOY FT SAM SMITH
10 STARSHIPS NICKI MINAJ
11 FORGET YOU CEE LO GREEN
12 GRENADE BRUNO MARS
13 EARTHQUAKE LABRINTH FT TINIE TEMPAH
14 BENEATH YOUR BEAUTIFUL LABRINTH FT EMELI SANDE
15 ON THE FLOOR JENNIFER LOPEZ FT PITBULL
16 PASS OUT TINIE TEMPAH
17 SCREAM & SHOUT WILL I AM FT BRITNEY SPEARS
18 WHAT'S MY NAME RIHANNA FT DRAKE
19 MEET ME HALFWAY BLACK EYED PEAS
20 THRIFT SHOP MACKLEMORE/RYAN LEWIS/WANZ

© 2014 OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. CHART COMPILED FROM WEEK 1 2004 TO WEEK 15 2014.

You heard it here first, the bolded songs are urban. Britney, R&B / hip hop trendsetter. "Only Girl (In The World)", urban jam.

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-...revealed-2982/

There are only 2 songs on that list that I would consider being even slightly urban

u mean songs with black artists' right

dd;

slay a bit "On the Floor"!

Almost none of those are actually urban.

This list is a ****ing joke. I see like one "urban" song in the top ten. Good ****ing bye!

So basically the biggest songs featuring a person of color.

I guess Lenny Kravitz could be part of this list too because he's black.

Not Thrift Shop, Blurred Lines, and Only Girl being considered "urban"
Not to say Icon hasn't done urban, but Only Girl is clearly pop, so is Thrift Shop, and Blurred Lines is just garbage.

Not them putting Britney on this list just because she's black. The blatant racism

what about the ''Urban'' part in the tittle?

I don't see the issue with "Blurred Lines" being urban. Didn't it top the US urban airplay chart for several weeks?

Urban in the UK doesn't mean the same as America. It refers to music that is associated with British urban culture.

We Found Love would be Top 5 if it wasn't for the Calvin Harris feature. They felt that changed the track from being urban into dance, so instead it's the most downloaded dance song.

Urban...